when a plague rises - open; announcement + vale needed

[VALE]

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graphic gore ★ genderfluid ★ white sumatran tiger

Vale pads toward Brymstone. Vis tail flicks, and the flesh flicks away to splatter against a slab of obsidian. Now the tiger’s tail resembles Brymstone’s in jagged pieces of interlocking bone–minus the scorpion tip.

The ardent’s head tilts, one of three eyes squinting as the other two widen in surprise. “Helpful news?” Tapping a claw against vis cheek, the tiger chuckles, “More than helpful.”

The fanged smile upon Vale’s face disguises the shapeshifter’s true feelings. When Brymstone left, Vale found verself in the same position, if only for a brief amount of time, that Brymstone had suffered. Had vis ex-boyfriend run off because he’d, finally, seen how grotesque Vale is? Or had Vale’s leadership role scared him off? Or, even, had the bonehead left for the desert to complete the blooding? Had he been killed?

“You have my congratulations. Though I suppose the locals aren’t taking the takeover very well, are they?” Vale’s flat tone implies the rhetorical question; Tanglewoods hated the COTC’s takeover attempt, and they had no reason to love Brymstone. “What are you planning with them?”

YOU NEVER TRUSTED ME ★
BUT I’M OVER IT NOW
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